Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution(18)

From the archive

This film was last shown on 9 February 2018

- Friday Night After Party: Non-Conformist Thrust with DJ
Anna Kissed

What happens when the community you need is not
the community you have? Tell yourself it exists over and over, make fan zines
that fabricate hordes of queer punk revolutionaries, create subversive movies,
and distribute those movies widely—and slowly, the community you’ve fabricated
might become a real and radical heartbeat that spreads internationally. This is
the story that Queercore tells, from the start
of a pseudo-movement in the mid-1980s, intended to punk the punk scene, to the
widespread rise of artists who used radical queer identity to push back equally
against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture.

Underscoring the interviews are clips from movies,
zines, concerts, and actions iconic to the movement. As steeped in the radical
queer, anti-capitalist, DIY, and give-no-fucks approach as queercore itself,
the movie reveals the perspectives and experiences of bands, moviemakers,
writers, and other outsiders, taking audiences inside the creation of the
community—and art—so desperately needed by the same queers it encompassed.the start of a pseudo-movement in the mid-1980s, intended
to punk the punk scene, to the widespread rise of artists who used radical
queer identity to push back equally against gay assimilation and homophobic
punk culture.